Division of Research and Graduate Studies
22nd Annual Central California Research Symposium Award Winners
Record Crowd Attends
22nd Annual Central California Research Symposium
FRESNO, CA (APRIL 23, 2001) – Students from as far as San Diego and San Jose joined approximately 350 guests and participants to set a new attendance record at the 22nd Annual Central California Research Symposium, held April 20 at the University Business Center on the campus of California State University, Fresno. Hosted by the Grants and Research Office at California State University, Fresno, the Symposium serves to bring together investigators, students, and faculty from a variety of disciplines to share the results of their scholarly work. Co-sponsors of the event include the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Fresno Medical Education Program, Valley Children’s Hospital and Alliant University. A total of 70 oral and 26 poster presentations were made at the event, which began with a keynote address by California State University, Fresno Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Michael J. Ortiz. A complete list of winners follows. For copies of the abstracts or any questions, please contact Douglas Carey at (559) 278-0840.
22nd Annual Central California Research Symposium
• April 20, 2001
California State University, Fresno at the University
Business Center Undergraduate Division
First place (tie): The Death Poem: A Study on William
Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• Luiz Claudio Carneiro Monteiro Prazeres - San Diego
State University
First place (tie): Role of Metal Ions in the Biosynthesis
of the Diterpenoid Marrubiin in the Common Horehound (Marrubium
vulgare)
• Alexander Candia - California State University,
Bakersfield
Honorable Mention: Accounting for Goodwill in Business
Combinations
• Wendy Jackson - California State University,
Fresno
Graduate Division:
First place (tie): Inhibition of Ovarian Reproductive
Development, by Methyl Farnesoate (MF), in the Tadpole Shrimp
Triops longicaudatus
• Colby Linder - California State University,
Fresno
First place (tie): Potential for Using Allium spp.
Amendments, With and Without Soil Heating, For Weed Control Via
Biofumigation
• Susan B. Mallek - California State University,
Fresno
Honorable Mention: Cloning ftd Promoter Constructs in the
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Pathway
• Mireya Macias - California State University,
Fresno
Doctoral Division:
First place: A Grounded Theory of Becoming a Teen Parent
Among Juvenile Hall Females: Implications for Public Policy
• Stephanie Parmely - Alliant University
Honorable Mention: School Social System Characteristics
Within High School Settings of Different Size and Teachers’
Perception of Student Violence and Disruption
• Robert P. Murray - California State University,
Fresno
Poster Division:
First place: Increasing Protein Uptake in Nematodes by
Using the Transduction Domain
• Brian O’Roak and G.W. Polack - California State
University, Fresno
Honorable mention: Challenges in Manipulating Genomic DNA
in Cosmid Vectors: Evaluation of Transformation and Cosmid Recovery
Methods
• Mary Scully - California State University, Fresno